BEFORE MEDICINE
How I came to psychiatry.
I was born in the Midwest and grew up in a small town in southern Oregon, where I came to see education, curiosity, persistence, and connection with other people as ways of opening doors to a larger world. I leaned heavily into school, sports and social life for my sense of purpose and direction.
I was young for my grade and physically behind many of my peers for several years. I went on to play soccer at Dartmouth, earn First Team All-Ivy honors, reach the NCAA quarterfinals, and later play semi-professionally for a season. That experience stayed with me: development does not happen on the same timetable for everyone, and where someone is today does not necessarily tell you where they can go.
After college, I worked in investment banking at Goldman Sachs in New York, private equity at Hellman & Friedman in San Francisco, and later at a private equity firm in Sydney. I learned a great deal, but over time I realized that outward success and a meaningful life are not necessarily the same thing.
I wanted a career centered more directly on working with people, developing expertise, and being genuinely useful. That brought me back to medicine and ultimately to psychiatry.
Psychiatry became the place where many of my interests came together: development, relationships, motivation, adversity, achievement, identity, and how people become who they are—and who they still might become.
PSYCHOTHERAPY & DEVELOPMENT
How my training shapes the way I practice.
I completed four years of psychoanalytic coursework and training at the Denver Institute for Psychoanalysis. It deepened my ability to work with parts of psychiatric care that are not captured by a diagnosis alone—recurring patterns, relationships, internal conflict, identity, defenses, and the effects of earlier experience. Therapy can do more than reduce symptoms; it can help people recognize patterns sooner, understand what drives them, make more deliberate choices, strengthen relationships, and create more room for change.
My two-year child and adolescent psychiatry fellowship has been equally important. It trained me to think developmentally: to understand people in the context of temperament, family, relationships, school or work, and stage of life. I use that perspective with adults too. Adult difficulties often make more sense when we understand how a person developed, what they adapted to, and how earlier strengths or coping strategies are functioning now.
TRAINING & EXPERIENCE
Physician training, psychotherapy, and development.
Private Practice | Denver
Child, adolescent and adult psychiatry, including psychiatric evaluation, psychotherapy, and medication management.
Denver Institute for Psychoanalysis
Four years of psychoanalytic coursework and training in psychoanalysis and psychotherapy.
University of Colorado | Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Fellow
Two-year comprehensive fellowship in child and adolescent psychiatry, including consultation, diagnostic evaluation, and treatment of children, adolescents, and families.
University of Colorado | Psychiatry Resident
General psychiatry residency with training in diagnosis, psychopharmacology, medical aspects of psychiatric care, and psychotherapy.
University of Colorado School of Medicine
Doctor of Medicine (MD).
Dartmouth College
Bachelor of Arts in History, magna cum laude; Phi Beta Kappa.
For more about how this background shapes care, see Why This Practice? For practical next steps, see Getting Started
PATIENT EXPERIENCE
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There is more than one way to understand a problem.
My training and experience have made me comfortable moving between focused psychiatric questions and broader developmental or psychotherapeutic ones. Some patients need a careful diagnosis and straightforward medication management. Others benefit from exploring relationships, identity, conflict, meaning, or longstanding patterns. Many need some combination over time.
That same perspective informs my work with ADHD, anxiety, depression, and the broader questions that can bring people to adult psychiatric care.
GETTING STARTED
The first step is understanding what brings you in.
If this way of thinking about psychiatric care fits what you are looking for, the initial assessment gives us time to understand the problem and decide what kind of care makes sense.